Automatic bucket support



Jan. 9, 1923.

Wa E ma 1,441,912 6. B. COATES.

AUTOMATIC BUCKET SUPPORT.

FILED MAR24,1922.

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Application filed March 2%, 1922. Serial No. %,404.

To all whom it may concern: 1 I

Be it known that l, Gnonsn B. Cozrrns, a citizen oi the United States, residing at French, in the county oi? Fayette and State of Idaho, have invented new and useful [automatic Bucket Supports, oi"- which the following is a specification.

This invention aims to provide novel means, under the control of the bail of a bucket, for supporting the bucket on the knees of an operator during the operation of milking.

lln the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 shows in longitudinal section, a portion of a bucket constructed in accord ance with the invention; Figure 2 is an end elevation showing a portion of the inner surface of a bucket equipped with the de vice forming the subject matter of this invention; Figure 3 is an elevation showing a portion of the outer surface oi? a bucket equipped with the device forming the subject matter of this invention; and Figure 4; is a tragmental top plan showing a portion or a bucket whereon the device forming the subject matter of this application has been mounted; and Fig. 5 is a detail of one of the auxiliary ears.

The numeral 1 denotes the body of an ordinary milking bucket, provided at its upper end with an outwardly extended bead 2. Main ears 3 are secured at a to the body 1 and carry the common bail (not shown), the

said bail being removed when the device forming the subject matter of this applica tion applied to the bucket The cars 3 have openings 5 wherein the atoresahl bail is mounted.

Auxiliary ears 6 are provided, and form part of the bucket. The cars 6 are mounted on the bead 2, and have extensions 7 extended downwardly on the inner surface of the bucket, as shown in Figure 2, each ear having an extension 8, prolonged downwardly on the outer surface of the bucket as shown in Figure 3, each extension 8 having a flange 9 engaged beneath one of the main ears 3. The cars 6 have openings 10 registering with the openings 5 in the ears 3.

Supports 11 areprovided, the same having curved enr 12 mounted loosely 1n the registering openings 10 and 5 of the cars l) and 3.

The numeral ll marks a hail, the ends whereof are pivoted at 15 to the supports 11 outwardly of the curved ends 19 of the suptions 19 ride in the cam slots 16 and, owing ports. (lain slots 16 of til-shape are fashioned in the ears (3. The intermediate or upper portions of the cam slots 16 are spaced ifurther from. the openings 5 and 10 than are the end portions of the cam slots. so Seats 1? are formed in the ears 6 at the lower ends of the cam slots, An internal seat is formed in each ear 6 adjacent to the upper end of each cam slot 16, as shown in Figure 5. The bail 1a is provided with projections 19 received slidably in the cam slots When the bail 14 is swung upwardly into the position shown in Figure at, the projecto the shape or the cam slots, the bail is elevated. W hen the bail is elevated, the sup ports 11 move upwardly into the positions shown in Figure l, the curved ends 12 of the supports sliding in the registering openings 5 and 10. After the bailllhas been raised into the position shown in Figure 1, the bail may be moved downwardly to a slight extent, whereupon the projections 19 will engage with the seats 18 of Figure 5, thus holding the bail in the upstanding position delineated in Figure 1.

F7 hen the bail it is swung downwardly into the position shown in Figure 4, the bail is moved transversely of the axis of the bucket, owing to the shape of the cam slots 16. When the bail 1 1 moves transversely oi the 0f the bucket, as aforesaid, the supports 11 are swung into the outstanding position shown in Figure t, and may be used tocarry the bucket on the knees oi the milker, it being unnecessary tor the inilker "to grip the bucket tightly between. his knees.

When the bail l l is in the position shown in Figure 1, the bail may be moved transversely of the axis or the bucket, to a slight extent, thereby engaging the projections 19 on the bail in one set of the seats 17, thereby holding the bail in a lowered position, and the supports 11 in an outstanding position.

l l hat is claimed is 1. in a device of the class described, a bucket; supports pivoted on the bucket; a bail pivoted to the supports; and a projection on the bail, the bucket having a cam slot receiving the projection, the cam slot being so shaped that when. the bail is swung upwardly, the bail will be raised, thereby raising the supports, and being so shaped that when the bail is swung downwardly, 110

the bail will be moved transversely of the characterized by the fact that the car has a axis of the bucket, thereby swinging the supseat, located adjacent to the lower end of ports outwardly. the cam slot, and-adapted to receive the pro- 12. A device of the class described, conjection when the bail is swung downwardly. '15 structed as set forth in claim 1 and further In testimony that I claim the foregoing: characterized by the fact thatthe ear has a as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signaseat located adjacent to the upper end of the ture i the presence of two witnesses.

cam slot and adapted to receive the projec- GEORGE B. COATES. tion when the bail is swung upwardly. Witnesses:

3. A device of the class described, con- CALVIN KELLER, structed asset forth in claim-l, and further DANIEL B. COATES.

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